About Julie - Your Retirement Coach
Julie Lenihan is Your Retirement Coach — an integrative practitioner whose work is shaped by three foundations:
Depth of human understanding — BACP‑informed therapeutic training.
Behavioural change — EMCC coaching practice.
Strategic organisational insight — CIPD chartership.
This blend gives her a rare, whole‑person perspective: emotional depth, behavioural clarity and a grounded understanding of how people move through work, transition and change.
Julie is a confident, calm and considerate coach. She offers a steady, psychologically informed space for you to explore what’s shifting, make sense of your experience and shape a future that feels aligned and meaningful.
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Collaborative and practical — focusing on what matters to you and on your own thoughts on retirement. Whatever that looks like.
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Whole‑life perspective — routines, relationships, values and wellbeing are part of the conversation.
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Warm, steady presence — support and gentle challenge so you can think differently without pressure.
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Outcome‑and ideas focused — clarity, confidence and a personalised plan you can act on.
How Julie works
Who Julie works with
Julie works with people who are approaching retirement, as well as those already in it. Retirement can be a surprising and emotionally complex transition.
They’ve spent a lifetime being relied upon, leading, caring, holding responsibility. And now the shift into or planning retirement brings an unexpected mix of quiet, loss, freedom and uncertainty.
They come to Julie because they want more than a plan for their time. They want to understand the inner changes, the identity shifts, the griefs, the questions about meaning and shape a future that feels grounded and true.
